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LOT 0344
Bronze Age Gold Spiral Hair Ring
CIRCA 1000 B.C.
5/8 in. (17.2 grams, 17 mm).
Formed as an ellipsoid-section tapering rod with the ends flattened.
ProvenanceAcquired in the mid 1980s-1990s.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.
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